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Wow. Very cool.

Tight code is fascinating, but I like to write un-obfuscated code for the next guy.

The next guy is usually me. I may not be able to build that house of cards in my head the second time.

Still, it is cool to see.

-RB

Hello!

What a surprise. Yep, that's me.

Playing with Funkasaurus Tex and still doing studio production.

According to Heinlein, only insects are specialists.

The incredible brain trust here handles concepts that are very advanced.
Many of those concepts reflect new ideas back to my world ...

Wow. You amaze me. I know the DSP book. I hadn't connected the book to the dude with a reactor. Lol

The unordered list. Very cool.
"Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein
That stuck with me the first time I read it in my teens. Sure, I could get someone to fix the window. Sure, I'll ...

Wow, you were there when it had to be assembly language to run fast enough.

I remember when HTML wa introduced. I thought how wasteful to use all that bandwidth for a picture. Lol

I just saw the mention of the lm194/lm394 in the analog forum. One of the guys that really helped me when I was a kid ...

Good point on phase.

The first time one I heard 24/96 was the the first time the cymbals sounded right. Back then, there were analog filters ahead of the ad converter. A cutoff freq of 48k meant nasty phase and group delay down to 1k. Nowadays oversampling means your 48k converter is really 384k ...

When digital became mainstream, (think Alesis Adat and Tascam d88 - circa 1992 ish) the converters were not that bad, but the analog I/O was PC soundcard cheap. Decades of knowledge were ignored. People would say "I have digital, but it doesn't sound as good". They were comparing a cheap mic through ...

Wow. "Slew Limits"

There was a great study of slew induced distortion by Reginald Williamson some time back.

I suspect that is the mechanism in play when I track through a pro ad converter at--18 to -12dBfs and people think it sounds analog. The analog section doesn't have to wiggle so hard.

RB

Well, I enjoyed wandering.

Very impressed with preamp design.

"FSCK you very much" is hilarious. I may borrow it, but I'll give you credit.

G'nite.

Very cool!!!

The writing here reminds me of the net pre HTML. Everyone could spell and advertising was forbidden.

I imagine I would recognize the non linear systems you worked on. I was one of the geeks that made the transition from analog to digital and remember seeing the first demos at the ...

Hello,

RB here. I am enjoying reading through the posts on the board. Nice to see such a high signal to noise ratio. That only come with a lot of moderator work. Thank you

My interests are wide and whacky. This is a general list.

Recording Engineer and producer. (Since analog tape and vinyl ...